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Its the toy story of action sports… Love a little story line to go with it! Two years in the making, street trials rider Danny MacAskill releases his brand new riding film. Whilst previous projects have focused on locations and and journey’s, MacAskill’s Imaginate sees Danny take a completely different approach to riding. Enter Danny’s mind and enjoy. http://imaginate.redbull.com/videos/riding_film

These guys have it too good! Anyone that snowboards, makes rad snowboarding films, and gets paid for it; has it too good! Releasing ‘All Day Everyday’ this year as their second (Flavor Country first) big production and the opener for ‘Time Well Wasted’ check out their blog.

Director Robjn Taylor from Crapneto is responsible for the film opener.

Love the installation work friends have done for insight surf and skate teams in the last years. The latest campaign titled Good morning Pluto has some amazing visuals. There is something so satisfying for me to see home made things. Love the home made set created in the desert….reminds me of one of those weird scarry carnival rides you’d get at a shitty country fair, yet this is for skaters.

We are a collaborative group of directors, photographers, stylists and art directors. Together we’ve created a small production company in Melbourne, Australia called Moop Jaw. We specialise in music videos, film and animation but are always excited to work on new projects that make use of our diverse range of styles, ideas and production teams.

I like the simpleness of their landing page at present: Small real and contact details. This is always the hardest step to initiate. Getting it up.

Directed by Hugo Arcier in January 2006. Bizarr, trippy, and subtly sexy.

The pendalum mirror ball drop in the opening frames cultivated me to watch this through. Lovely art piece. The dreamy like trance has been well developed in the beginning of the video and really made me feel involved. My only negative about this piece is the use of the 3d type structural drawings of the lady’s that come in around the 3 minute mark. I thought it took away from the organic beauty throughout.

One Russian Photographer I have been following on Flickr for quite some time now. Her name is Lena Vazhenina and her site is called Sex:Female , this is her Flickr.
Love her portrait work, high gloss factor and stylized art direction.

Back in April Rob and Justin visited Sierra Nevada in Spain for the Spanish Tourism board. They were filming professional snowboarder Billy Morgan and Skier Mirjam Jaeger enjoying what the mountain has to offer for the video series “48 Hours in…” Check out a video Sierra Nevada did that shows a little behind the scenese The post Billy Morgan at Sierra Nevada […]

Knack recently created content for Red Bull US at the Volcom Pipe Pro Surfing competition held at the infamous Banzai Pipeline. Delivering pre, during and post event clips, the team thoroughly enjoyed there time on the island: Check out the content: Credits: Producer Red Bull: Nate Hoppes Producer/Director: Justin Barnwell Director of Photography: Robert Nor […]

Is the traditional skate video as we know it really dead? What is the relevance of the skate video in this modern digital age? The latest skate documentary from Red Bull (crafted by the guys at Knack Studios), ‘Pushing Forward’ takes a look at the emergence of the solo video part, the impact a traditional The post Red Bull Skateboarding appeared first on Kna […]

Knack recently created a film for Microsoft on their JoinedUP Innovation program with subject matter experts Peter Freedman (RODE Microphones & Event Electronics) and Steve Glaveski (Hot-Desk.com.au). The post Microsoft JoinedUp Innovation appeared first on Knack Studios.

All I could think about was making a stir fry with what landed in the wok… I need to eat. Although there’s so many adaptions of stuff being blown up in slo-mo with nice music, it still does work if … Continue reading →